LA BIÈRE ET LE HOUBLON.
Limoges: Marc Barbou, 1884. A volume in the series LEÇONS DE CHOSES POUR LE PETITS ENFANTS. All about the making of beer, with numerous (crude) illustrations from wood-engravings. Full of scientific and technical information for young but intelligent children. Quite scarce. Ref. 17087 Beer-Making and Hops Gathering for Children. 18mo (13 x 8.5 cm); 64 pp. with illustrations reproduced from wood engravings.
Original binding in cartonnage with illustrations of children at work baking, picking grapes, etc. The rear cover framed in rustic border bears the motto: “ META LABORIS HONOR”. Nice condition but for creasing of thin spine and loss of spine paper in tiny portion of heel which has been lightly reinforced.
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